9/18/11

Lia Ices

Sunday morning is my favorite time for listening to music. It is, in fact, part of the inspiration for the name of this site. There's nothing quite like waking up on a sunday morning, laying around with the stereo on, sipping coffee, making breakfast, reading the paper. Sitting lazily in your slippers till the football game starts.

I'm going to try to start posting my favorite Sunday morning music on, you guessed it, Sunday morning. So here we go with the first shot at that.

I first discovered Lia Ices through her collaboration with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, which is featured on this record as the second track, Daphne. Vernon's name has been everywhere the last couple years, from his colab with post rock band Collections Of Colonies of Bees known as Volcano Choir, to his R&B super group Gayngs, to his well documented presence on Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It's almost starting to feel cliche, and i'm worried about a possible burn out as the addition of Vernon's affected falsetto continues to pop up all over the place (see: the upcoming James Blake EP).

With that said, if it wasn't for press coverage of Vernon's presence on the above track, I never would have found this amazing record. This is an ideal Sunday morning record, beautiful and soft with mellow pop hues and enough variation to avoid fading into background music. The textures of off center sounds, matched with Lia Ices' beautiful voice allow each track to build into small victories.

Who the fuck are you?

I'm Brad. I have an MA in Music Business from NYU. I used to be a community radio Music Director. This is a place for me to share the music I'm liking. Follow me on Twitter, @braddesmond, instagram @_bdesmond_